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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Failed Mayor Lightfoot Is On A Taxpayer Paid Mexico Junket
Lori will return wearing a big sombrero looking like a black mushroom!
Crime is so bad in Chicago that she feels safer in Mexico City.
https://www.thebrokebackpacker.com/is-mexico-city-safe/
Just stay there.
Gee Whiz, I wonder if she’ll advertise that Chicago is now a Public Charge Sanctuary and bring a few plane loads of illegal aliens back with her.